Japan And South Korea-based Vendors Cut Prices For Entry-level Blu-ray Players In US

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Originally Posted by JadedRaverLA

The only group of people with less understanding of technology than those who write for Tom's hardware are those who comment on posts at Tom's hardware.

Since their article says essentially nothing, I followed the link back to Digitimes... which is equally nonsensical.

They start of talking about the price of the Samsung BD-P1400 at Walmart (which no Walmart I've been to currently carries, and isn't a current model) and then says... "in a related note" and talks about the price the BD-P1500 (the actual current model) in Taiwan... which I'm not sure how relates to the U.S. Also, according to the article, Samsung sets Walmart's price for products... which, neither I, nor anyone who has ever heard of or been to a Walmart knew before this moment! </sarcasm>

It's a pretty simple article: they're lowering the retail prices (e.g. MSRP) to clear these old units out. Walmart, Amazon, etc set their own prices of course, but the vendor sets the MSRP.